CANTARES DEL MAL DE AMORES / 2009

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Cantares del mal de amores. Poetas cubanos (2009)
Selección y prólogo: Juan René Coyra.
Edición: Sed de Belleza editores / 2009.
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Antologados entre otros: Abilio Estévez, Ruth Behar, Chely Lima, Víctor Fowler, Cira Andrés, Alberto Edel Morales, Sigfredo Ariel, Emilio García Montiel, Alberto Rodríguez Tosca, Juan Carlos Flores, Sonia Díaz Corrales, Heriberto Hernández Medina, Agustín Labrada, Odette Alonso Yodú, Julio Mitjans, Juan Carlos Vallls, Damaris Calderón, Camilo Venegas, Norge Espinosa, George Riverón, José Félix León, Luis Yuseff y Aymara Aymerich.
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Juan René Coyra: (Banes, 1970) Poeta y editor. Graduado de psicología. En 1994, fundó la editorial Sed de Belleza. Desde 1994 se desempeña como editor. Ha publicado los libros Nocturnos de la sed (1995), Las vidas miserables (1999), El oráculo de Delfos (2001), En el jardín de Epicuro (2003), Agreste (2004), Hombre que vive frente al mar (2005), Pensamientos primitivos (2006), Cúmulonimbos (2006) y El gran apagón (2006). Textos y poemas suyos han sido publicados en revistas culturales cubanas y del extranjero.
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THE WHOLE ISLAND: SIX DECADES OF CUBAN POETRY / 2009.

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The whole island: six decades of Cuban poetry. A bilingual anthology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.

Cuba's cultural influence throughout the Western Hemisphere, and especially in the United States, has been disproportionally large for so small a country. This landmark volume is the first comprehensive overview of poetry written over the past sixty years. Presented in a beautiful Spanish-English en face edition, The Whole Island makes available the astonishing achievement of a wide range of Cuban poets, including such well-known figures as Nicolás Guillén, José Lezama Lima, and Nancy Morejón, but also poets widely read in Spanish who remain almost unknown to the English-speaking world-among them Fina García Marruz, José Kozer, Raúl Hernández Novás, and Angel Escobar-and poets born since the Revolution, like Rogelio Saunders, Omar Pérez, Alessandra Molina, and Javier Marimón. The translations, almost all of them new, convey the intensity and beauty of the accompanying Spanish originals. With their work deeply rooted in Cuban culture, many of these poets-both on and off the island-have been at the center of the political and social changes of this tempestuous period. The poems offered here constitute an essential source for understanding the literature and culture of Cuba, its diaspora, and the Caribbean at large, and provide an unparalleled perspective on what it means to be Cuban.

Format: Kindle Edition
Print Length: 624 pages
Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (October 26, 2009)
Language: English / Spanish
ASIN: B002S0OBLY

Mark Weiss is a poet, translator, publisher, and editor. His publications include six books of poetry; as coeditor, Across the Line/Al otro lado: The Poetry of Baja California; and as translator, Stet: Selected Poems of José Kozer.

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BUT EVERYBODY IS DREAMING - PERO TODOS SUEÑAN / 2004

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Poemas de Cuba contemporánea.
Seleccionados y traducidos por Rosalind M. Gill.
Edición: Lugus Libros / 2004.
Diseño: Lugus Libros Latin America Inc.
Cubierta: Reinaldo Pagán Ávila.
Prólogo: Rosalind M. Gill.

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Rosalind M. Gill was born and grew up in St. John's, Newfoundland. She is Chair of the School of Translation, Glendon College, York University, Toronto. She teaches translation as well as French as a second language. She has published a language teaching manual (Le Français dans le village global, Canadian Scholars' Press, 1999) and she has translated two books on Quebec (Quebec Women a History, Women's Press, 1987, and A Sociocritque of Translation-Theatre and Alterity in Quebec, University of Toronto Press, 1996). She is presently working on translations of Hispanic literature, particularly Cuban poetry. She has also published her own short stories in Canadian journals, including The Antigonish Review and Canadian Fiction Magazine.

THE CITY OF BRIDGES IS COMMITTING SUICIDE,
.........putting itself to sleep.
In the house of the musicians
.........a girl, her face darkened with fear
.........has placed a shell beneath the sound;
.........but everybody is dreaming,
.........closing their eyes and dreaming that there is no need to jump,
.........to hurl yourself off the bridge
.........when there's music to fill up the labyrinths.
On the stairway, they have placed mountains of papers to stop people from going up
.........from going out on the balconies,
.........and baring their breasts
.........and the city like a witness, needs some minimal testimony
.........a piece of heart to throw off the bridge.

They have begun to share out in equal portions the bitter tea
.........and the pieces of lemon cut
.........with the sharp gesture of sadness,
.........they have begun to cut absence in two,
.........but the girl
.........does not want to remember that there was a time when she was not alone,
.........once, she could not picture solitude.

On the antique clock, everyone is eager to leave a mark,
.........a gouge in the wood that time will make bleed,
.........then, all wrongdoings will be rewarded
.........all blood spilled will be like old bitterness spilling
.........then we won't have to worry
.........about the girl flying ever so lightly off the bridge, violating the air.
The musician is a docile restless animal
.........the city is his mask;
.........he has seen the waters fill up with light and dreams,
.........but the girls have decided to cut their hair off,
.........they've decided to put on a mask so they can forget the music.

POESÍA CUBANA DEL SIGLO XX / 2002

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Poesía cubana del siglo XX. Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, 2002.
Selección y notas: Jesús J. Barquet y Norberto Codina.
Prólogo: Jesús J. Barquet.

LAS PALABRAS SON ISLAS / 1999

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Las palabras son islas. Panorama de la poesía cubana siglo XX. Editorial Pueblo y Educación, Ciudad Habana, Cuba, 1999. 1ra. Edición.

POETAS EN MATANZAS V / 1999

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Ediciones Matanzas, Cuba, 1999

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Selección y notas: Juan Luis Hernández Milián y Nilda de la Paz.

Prólogo: Caridad Rodríguez Hernández.

POESÍA CUBANA: LA ISLA ENTERA / 1994

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Poesía cubana: La isla entera. Madrid: Editorial Betania, 1994.
Selección: Felipe Lázaro y Bladimir Zamora.

POESÍA DE LAS DOS ORILLAS / 1994

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Poesía de las dos orillas (1959-1993). Madrid. Libertarias/Prodhufi, 1994
Selección y prólogo: León de la Hoz.

DE TRANSPARENCIA EN TRANSPARENCIA / 1993

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De transparencia en transparencia. Antología poética. (Primera Edición) La Habana: Letras Cubanas, 1993. (Segunda Edición) Madrid: Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana, 1993.
Selección y prólogo: Nidia Fajardo Ledea.

RETRATO DE GRUPO / 1989

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Retrato de grupo. La Habana: Letras Cubanas, l989.
Selección: Carlos Augusto Alfonso Barroso, Víctor Fowler Calzada, Emilio García Montiel y Antonio José Ponte.

Prólogo: Víctor Fowler Calzada y Antonio José Ponte.